4 h. ago Dozens dead 'including 22 children' as Israel launches wave of strikes on Gaza hospitals

Israel's response to the October 7 massacre by Hamas has now killed approximately 52,000 Palestinians

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5 h. ago Middle East crisis live: More than 60 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza

Dead include those killed in a strike on the European hospital complex near Khan YounisIsrael hits hospitals in deadly strikesAssociated Press, citing local hospitals, reports that at least 22 children were killed in Gaza overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday by Israeli airstrikes.Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met online with US president Donald Trump, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, Reuters reports, citing Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 48 people, including 22 children, hospitals say

At least 22 children were killed in Gaza overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday in a punishing series of Israeli airstrikes on homes in northern Gaza

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7 h. ago Strike on Gaza hospital kills 28 as Israel claims it hit 'Hamas command centre'

Gaza's Civil Defence teams scrambled through the rubble at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, pulling casualties, including children, from the wreckage - in a blast that killed at least 28

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15 h. ago Boy, 4, was suffering from a common childhood virus – then he 'didn't wake up'

Dougie MacKay was admitted to hospital for croup, a common virus that affects children, causing their airways to swell - but he contracted two types of flu; flu A and flu B

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20 h. ago Female hospital worker, 51, weeps in court as she admits plotting to rape children with her partner

Operating theatre assistant Tracy Turner, 51, made indecent images of children as well as planning horrific sex attacks on young children.

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22 h. ago Hospital worker admits planning horrific sex attacks on children

University Hospital of Wales theatre assistant Tracy Turner and her partner Stuart Compton plotted to carry out the attacks on multiple children

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40 h. ago Weight loss jabs in obese children can help avoid mealtime rows, study says

Liraglutide is found to have beneficial impact on weight and families report reduced conflicts around foodGiving obese children weight loss jabs works and could help avoid arguments over mealtimes, according to research.Clinicians treating very obese children at a hospital in Sweden analysed whether liraglutide injections could be used as well as diet and lifestyle changes to increase weight loss. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago The Guardian view on Israel and Gaza: Trump can stop this horror. The alternative is unthinkable | Editorial

The US president has the leverage to force through a ceasefire. If he does not, he will implicitly signal approval of what looks like a plan of total destructionDonald Trump would like a big foreign policy win as he embarks on his tour of the Middle East this week. He could secure one – and save lives – by demanding that Israel agree to a lasting ceasefire in exchange for the release of all hostages held in Gaza. He might prefer to avoid the issue, but no other leader has the leverage to force its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to end this war. If Mr Trump instead backs Israel’s current proposals, he will put the US imprimatur on what looks like a plan of total destruction.Israel’s attacks have already killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, according to local health authorities – the vast majority of them civilians, many of them children. Bakeries, hospitals and schools have been obliterated. Aid has been blocked for two months. Gaza faces famine. Last week, Isr...

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4 d. ago Israeli airstrikes kill 23 in Gaza as outcry over aid blockade grows

Health officials say Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Saturday have killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza

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9 d. ago Highly experienced American mountaineer dies of cardiac arrest climbing 27,838 ft peak

Alexander Pancoe was suffering from leukaemia and sought to raise funds for Illinois children’s hospital by summiting Mt Makalu

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9 d. ago Highly experienced American mountaineer dies of cardiac arrest climbing 8,485m peak

Alexander Pancoe was suffering from leukaemia and sought to raise funds for Illinois children’s hospital by summiting Mt Makalu

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1 week ago Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 people in Gaza, officials say

Bureij, Beit Lahiya, Gaza City and Khan Younis hit as Israeli government prepares to expand offensiveIsraeli airstrikes have killed at least 40 people across Gaza during the past 24 hours, civil defence officials in the devastated Palestinian territory said, as Israel’s government prepared to order an expansion of its military offensive.Nine people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza; another six people died in a separate strike targeting a family home in the northern city of Beit Lahiya; six more died in a strike on a community kitchen in Gaza City, and an overnight attack on the Khan Younis refugee camp killed at least 11 people including three babies up to a year old, the officials said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Drug trial for severe epilepsy has transformed children’s lives, families say

The parents of children with Dravet syndrome taking part in a clinical trial at Sheffield Children’s Hospital have reported life-changing results.

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1 week ago How a small drop in vaccinations could see measles becoming endemic again – new study

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known, and it is far from harmless, hospitalising one in five infected children and killing up to three in every 1,000 children who catch it

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2 w. ago Middle East latest: At least 12 killed overnight by Israeli strikes in Gaza

At least 12 people including children were killed overnight in Gaza by Israeli strikes, hospital workers said Wednesday

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2 w. ago Four girls, aged 7 to 18, killed after car crashes into Illinois school building named as tributes pour in

Marianne Akers, 44, drove a vehicle into a school building on Monday which left four girls dead and six other children injured, one of whom remains in critical condition in hospital

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2 w. ago Sick children are being treated in cupboards in Wales' 'crowded, chaotic' hospitals, medics claim

Doctors and nurses have also spoken of elderly people being treated in toilets and people dying waiting for beds in shocking testimony as they demand action from the Welsh Government to end 'corridor care'

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2 w. ago Dominican Republic deports pregnant women in ‘inhumane’ migrant crackdown

More than 130 women and children who fled Haiti to seek healthcare rounded up in hospitals and sent backPregnant women and new mothers are being rounded up in hospitals in the Dominican Republic and deported back to Haiti as part of what observers say is an openly cruel, racist and misogynist government policy.More than 130 Haitian women and children were removed on the first day of a new crackdown on undocumented migrants last week targeting the Caribbean country’s main public hospitals. Dominican authorities said 48 were pregnant, 39 were new mothers and 48 were children. Local media reported that one woman was deported while in labour. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Meghan's 'desperate to trump the royals', claims former friend

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: When they both attended the LA Children's Hospital Gala last year, TV presenter Lizzie Cundy claimed the Duchess of Sussex was there just 'for the photographs'.

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